Alessandra Damijanić
Senior Project Manager
Experience
Jan 2021 - Present
3 years 7 monthsSenior Project Manager
Unguess
- Leading and managing functional, market research, and consumer experience projects through the full lifecycle, and ensuring they are delivered to agreed time, quality, and budget targets
- Setting up research projects using different online platforms (e.g. Alchmer, JotForm) to ensure accurate data collection (and consequently data analysis)
- Activation of the set-up team and final supervision of surveys before they are sent out to the community
- Creating and setting up screener sets of questions to identify the target audience in collaboration with the Customer Success Team
- Setting up and using the designated PM tool and other data collection systems, and ensuring alignment of use across the team
Jan 2021 - Dec 2022
1 yearProduct Manager
Speck
- Developed localization strategy for a web and mobile app owned by a local corporation
- Led technical projects for performance improvements on web applications (SSR, lazy load)
- Led mobile development projects (e2e, optimizations, customizations)
- Developed product roadmap for a booking software and led the product discovery phase
- Main technical point of contact for customization requests on Shoutem for start ups
- Led CRM migration project in collaboration with another digital agency
- Created client proposals for web and mobile solutions (MVP plan, cost, and time estimations)
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
2 yearsWeb Service Development Expert
CMG
- Developed strategy for the new department (Web editing), defined responsibilities for each role, described processes for each role in collaboration with other SME, and developed migration plan from other departments
- Led web estate discovery phase project - defining needs, identifying personas, planning the roll-out of a new web framework where the content was split between corporate and product websites for local markets
- Led CMS migration project for 40 markets (Umbraco to Optimizely) with a team of web editors, developers, and analytics specialists
- Managed research on needs and features, and led the development team in the creation of web components
- Led project for web application using machine learning for image segmentation and setting it up as a company service
- Created internal service catalog and rate card in collaboration with SME
- Responsible for approval of cost and time estimations for complex web development projects in collaboration with Technical leads
Jan 2020 - Dec 2021
2 yearsWeb Service Consultant
CMG
- Supervised up to 12 project managers leading new web framework roll-out for the client's web estate on 50 markets for 5 brands
- Main point of contact for new complex web development projects (internally and for clients)
- Consulted client's technology and operations departments on process optimization and introducing new technologies
- Developed proposals for optimization of client’s web standards documentation
- Oversaw existing internal web development project processes, discussed improvements with the team, created proposals for the company board, and rolled out new process improvements
- Responsible for approval of cost and time estimations for localizations and complex web development projects in collaboration with Technical leads
- Created RFP and RFQ proposal for web and overall digital strategy
Summary
My focus in my spare time is to advance my programming skills. The reason behind that is that I would like to improve my technical understanding of projects and be a better manager between the SMEs and non-tech stakeholders. I also regularly attend PMP webinars and courses to learn about the latest PM practices continuously.
Languages
Croatian
Native
English
Advanced
Italian
Advanced
German
Intermediate
Education
Oct 2019 - Jun 2021
Faculty of Economics Dr. Mijo Mirković
MA · Business Informatics · Croatia
Oct 2015 - Jun 2019
Faculty of Economics Dr. Mijo Mirković
BA · Business Informatics · Croatia
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Swiss Hotel Management School
Switzerland
Certifications & licenses
Project Management Professional (PMP)
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